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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2010-08-09 17:18:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-09 20:44:55 -0700
commit455c0e5fb03b67fa62bd12e3abe3fa484b9960c5 (patch)
tree082cbecb8927e1c8e0c2cea5d5639e9c8f62eafe /mm/oom_kill.c
parenta9877cc2937889e5669114f28612b494384152a4 (diff)
oom: check PF_KTHREAD instead of !mm to skip kthreads
select_bad_process() thinks a kernel thread can't have ->mm != NULL, this is not true due to use_mm(). Change the code to check PF_KTHREAD. Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/oom_kill.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/oom_kill.c9
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 709aedfaa01..7c0dc414dba 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -256,14 +256,11 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints,
for_each_process(p) {
unsigned long points;
- /*
- * skip kernel threads and tasks which have already released
- * their mm.
- */
+ /* skip tasks that have already released their mm */
if (!p->mm)
continue;
- /* skip the init task */
- if (is_global_init(p))
+ /* skip the init task and kthreads */
+ if (is_global_init(p) || (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
continue;
if (mem && !task_in_mem_cgroup(p, mem))
continue;